Luckless McLaren star involved in yacht scrape

Lewis Hamilton was involved in another crash, this time before the start of one of the world’s largest yacht races - at least this time it wasn’t his fault.
Hamilton was aboard the Open 60 Hugo Boss, with Olympic medallist Ben Ainslie (pictured with Lewis, above) and round the world yachtsman Alex Thomson on the Round the Island Race off the Isle of Wight, when it collided with the yacht Farr 45 Atomic. The Hugo Boss yacht was then disqualified.

“I am gutted because it is a beautiful boat and I have been to the front and the bow has been snapped off,” Lewis said, after the incident. “This is the first time I have been on a sailing boat. It is very technical and the cool thing is it has a lot in common with Formula One. It is very complex and I was very fortunate they allowed me to drive it for 30-40 minutes but surprisingly I did a pretty good job.”

Er, do you drive a boat? We think not.

More pics of Lewis on-board the yacht below: